Yang Jwing-Ming

Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming (1946-present) is a Taiwanese-American master of Chinese martial and internal arts and one of the most respected, rigorous authors on qigong and taijiquan in the West.

Holding a Ph. D. in mechanical engineering alongside decades of training in Shaolin, taijiquan, and qigong lineages, he founded YMAA (Yang’s Martial Arts Association) and has written dozens of scholarly, classically grounded books on chi (qi) cultivation, the body’s energy channels and centers, and the internal dimension of martial practice.

His work is distinguished by its attempt to present qigong theory carefully—rooted in classical Chinese sources—while engaging questions of how subtle energy relates to physiology and the nervous system. For the mind-power lineage, Yang Jwing-Ming provides the scholarly, systematic face of the qi/energy paradigm, counterbalancing the more popularized presentations.

His detailed exposition of energy channels, breath-led circulation, and the cultivation of chi gives the subtle-body model an articulate, classically referenced foundation, lending intellectual weight to the broader “subtle energy can be sensed and directed by mind and breath” premise that underlies modern energy and vibration spirituality.

By taking the internal arts seriously as a coherent system—and probing how their effects might intersect with the body’s physiology—he serves as a credible bridge between traditional Chinese energetics and a Western audience seeking grounded understanding of the chi paradigm that informs much mind-power and energy-healing discourse.